Benzino: If Eminem was Black, he wouldn't be a Superstar. His whiteness was his novelty

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Dude might legit be the dopest new dude in the game right now

Far as the ones I know of :hubie:

And Em is a GOAT

Easily top 10 possibly top 5 GOAT :umad:


I don’t know about him being the G.O.A.T. but he’s one of the better rappers off skill. Nas might be the G.O.A.T.
 

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Go listen to white America, Eminem is fully aware of this. We don't need to rehash this over and over.

No.
White supremacy/privilege and the backdoors it opens for many undeserving cacs cannot just be dismissed and quickly glanced over like that..that's what the racists want.
It has to be discussed, addressed and dissected fully until it stops.
:camby:
 

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No.
White supremacy/privilege and the backdoors it opens for many undeserving cacs cannot just be dismissed and quickly glanced over like that..that's what the racists want.
It has to be discussed, addressed and dissected fully until it stops.
:camby:
Now this is where I say um.."it's just entertainment" guy. Go apply that rhetoric to something a bit more tangible, I get what you saying here, but this ain't it.
 

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Imo em is talented. But he ain't a goat. He don't have any songs you cause cruise to in the whip, he ain't got no songs you can play in the club, he ain't got no songs you can play at a party and vibe to, smoke out to, lean back to. Even if you're not listenin to the lyrics he ain't got that background music you can really vibe to in large numbers.
 

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Heres the thing: em also rapped about the experience of being poor and white. And being disenfranchised. And being neglected/harmed by family. Lot of people in that space. Lot of white people in that space. The whole ‘if he was black’ argument is silly simply because his entire persona was based around a very white experience.

This is the thing I think a lot of people are ignoring. The "but if he was black" argument would only be relevant if he came up doing a blaccent and rapped about being from the hood or some other wannabe blackface adjacent bullshyt. But he didn't. Like you said, he rapped about his experiences growing up as poor white trash with a shytty, abusive white mom, an absentee white dad and a drug addicted white baby mama. This is shyt that even in 2023 poor Appalachian cacs could still easily relate to.

Him being white was one part of the novelty but that he WASN'T trying to emulate black rappers and rapped about his life while being poor and white was the other. If that wasn't the case then all white rappers would be multi-millionaire superstars, right?
 

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If Em came out today without the Dr. Dre or Dre adjacent co-sign, he’d be one of these two.



 

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Now this is where I say um.."it's just entertainment" guy. Go apply that rhetoric to something a bit more tangible, I get what you saying here, but this ain't it.

Sorry, its not just entertainment.
For privileged unaffected White people yes, for Black people Not..they actually have to live with the bullshyt hiphop has inspired, not White people in gated communities and safe spaces insulated from what Black people experience.
 
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